Heather Badamo is a professor at UCSB and specializes in the air of Byzantium and the East Christian world. Her research focuses on the intersections of Christian and Islamic visual culture, in particular the circulations of objects across the frontier zones of the eastern Mediterranean, with the related dissemination and transformation of artistic forms, ideas, and beliefs. Primary academic interests include theories of cultural exchange, philosophies of religious violence, art in war, and visual strategies for communal self-fashioning. Other interest are medieval images theory and the urban development of Cairo.

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Get ready for our February Language Tables! Wednesday, February 14th from 12:00-1:00pm Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese & Spanish Thursday, February 15th from 5:00-6:00pm Arabic, French, German & Spanish Have a chat with some of our language professors, get language practice, and meet peers from other classes! The first 15 students who do not have a